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Reputation: 657

How from github, not to clone the large files managed by git-lfs?

In case a github repository (for example /user/myRepository) has large data files managed by Git LFS, when we clone the repository (with git-lfs installed on the client) with git clone https://github.com/user/myRepository.git, we get the whole repository (including the large files) and it can be quite long.

Is there a solution to not recover large files if you want to quickly clone only codes (without large files)?

I tried naively to do:

git lfs uninstall

before to do: 

git clone https://github.com/user/myRepository.git

and it took long time and the large files was cloned ...

I look for a simple method like:

I want the large files, I do:

git lfs install
git clone https://github.com/user/myRepository.git

I want to be fast and I don't need large files, I do:

git lfs  uninstall
git clone https://github.com/user/myRepository.git

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1208

Answers (1)

bk2204
bk2204

Reputation: 76599

You can set the environment variable GIT_LFS_SKIP_SMUDGE=1 while cloning and then use git lfs pull to pull down the large files if you want to check them out later.

The environment variable is documented in the git-lfs-config(5) manual page.

Upvotes: 1

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